Famous NYers Crossword Quiz

Extracted from the interactive online Famous New Yorkers Crossword Puzzle.

1. Hoopster once Bull, then Wizard (2 words) ?

2. Roll film inventor ?

3. Polio vaccine developer ?

4. 1949 Academy award winner for Best Score (2 words) ?

5. Writer of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" (3 words) ?

6. President born in Summer Hill, NY (2 words) ?

7. Pin tumbler cylinder lock inventor ?

8. "Leaves of Grass" poet (2 words) ?

9. "Iron Horse" baseball legend ?

10. Hicksville piano man (2 words) ?

11. "Rhapsody in Blue" composer from Brooklyn ?

12. "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" author ?

13. "The Way We Were" songstress/actress ?

14. "Moby Dick" author ?

15. "Honeymooners" actor ?

16. Sleeping train car inventor ?

17. First Chief Justice of the United States (2 words) ?

18. "Top Gun" actor from Syracuse ?

19. Hoover Supreme Court appointee – Oliver Wendell Holmes successor ?

20. Redhead commedienne from Jamestown, NY (2 words) ?

21. Initials of President from Hyde Park ?

22. 1978 "Man of Steel" ?

23. Birthplace of President Martin Van Buren ?